A few years ago, Ashish Dhawan, Co-founder of Chrys Capital, one of India's biggest private equity funds, Pramath Raj Sinha, Founding Dean of ISB, Vineet Gupta, MD, Jamboree Education, and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and Vice Chairman of InfoEdge (Naukri.com), joined hands and pulled in many others to conceptualise and build Ashoka University, a private university focused on liberal arts education. They write about the importance of liberal arts to the development of the country.